Here is an important article for you to read as to why it may have happened.

My Apple, bought at during the same time period also apparently had some like components and it failed prematurely. I now have a new Apple. Other computer brands were affected as well.

“Documents recently unsealed in a three-year-old lawsuit against Dell show that the company’s employees were actually aware that the computers were likely to break.” - from the article.

The type of thinking and operations in the business model addressed in the article is rife in the entire economy from banking on down. Remember this is the type of business model taught at the largest and most prominent business schools in the country. What ever happened to "consistent, steady and reliable" in a business model?

Sometimes I feel as if one day I am going to wake up and nothing – nothing - will work. Like something straight out of the Twilight Zone.